In the News

The big news this week is that it has now been established there was a co-regency between Amenophis III and Akhenaten. This lasted around 10

At www.newscientist.com/article/dn25046-the-reptile-labour-that-lasted-248-... ... is a classic case of uniformitarianism glossing over the discovery of an uncomfortable fossil, a reptile in the act of giving birth

This year has been very cold in N America and very mild in parts of Europe. In Britain and Ireland we have had persistent and

At http://anthropology.net/2014/02/07/oldest-hominin-footprints-found-outsi... ... is a report on the discovery of human footprints at Happisburg in Norfolk, going back, it is believed, to 850,000 years ago.     

                                                                    

Welkl, we've had Hawking's 'Black Hole that don't exist' - go to www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/dark-gravity-dark-matter-might-not... ... which involves Hongcheng Zhae of St Andrews University, and a team

Not perhaps fading as moving away - go to http://phys.org/print310978191.html ... the Apollo astronauts and Soviet Russian'Moon Rovers' left various things behind on the visits

At http://phys.org/print311010604.html ... you haven't heard of Homo antecessor? Well, he lived a very long time ago. The oldest hominim in Europe apparently, going back

At http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Print/5368.aspx ... the lost pharaoh of dynasty 16 (update). It seems there was an independent dynasty at Abydos contemporary with the Hyksos, and the

Provoked by the recent claim that camels are first known in the southern Levant in the Iron Age a New Chronology Yahoo Group commenter claims

At www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/follow-the-money.html and www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/2/10/alas-smith.html we get a flavour of the argument - and its a perfect environmentalist driven train crash, but the politicos are squirming

At http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/ancient-iron-workin... ... this story caught my eye because a friend of mine has discovered several bloomeries in what is nowadays an isolated woodland environment

One of the big problems uniformitarians have is the diet of Ice Age mammals. We've all heard of those mammoths that were found with grasses,

At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205103701.htm ... research by a student at the University of Otago in New Zealand took him to California, to a geological formation in San

Space rock hit Mars on a regular basis. At www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-037 ... we have a crater 100 feet in diameter at the centre of radial burst

Cracking dismantlement of a warmist graph that words alone could not hope to do justice. The video link is at http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/02/07/friday-funny-two-guys-with-a-ruler... ... must see video.

A lovely mix of stories here. At www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140203131518.htm ... research at Tel Aviv University shows that domesticated camels were not introduced to the Levant until

The idea black holes don't exist, as espoused by Stephen Hawking, has been challenged by physicists according to www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/major-league-physicists-challenge-... ... although, as already noticed in

The Independent newspaper and various other sources such as the BBC are reporting that rabbits digging holes near Lands End have unearthed a treasure trove

At http://phys.org/print310388983.html ...  a paper in Astrophysical Research Letters by scientists from Bistol's 'School of Physics' concerns a computer simulation of how planets form around